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- Summary: The first non-soundtrack release from the Icelandic composer features appearances from the Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra, The Dirac Quartet, Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices, Clarice Jensen, and Anthony Weeden.
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- Record Label: DG Deutsche Grammophon
- Genre(s): Classical, New Age, Pop/Rock, Classical Crossover, Contemporary Instrumental
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Oct 4, 2016On Orphée, Jóhannsson expresses the need to let some things and people go to let new ones in with remarkable nuance, as well as the affecting beauty fans have come to know and love.
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UncutSep 26, 2016Unhurried passages of string melodies dominate, but often underpinned by unsettling notes of cello and bursts of shortwave radio as he explores the myth of Orpheus' escape from the underworld. [Oct 2016, p.32]
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Sep 26, 2016It’s as if the drug and crime infested landscapes of Sicaro were Jóhansson’s underworld, but, unlike Orpheus, he did not look back on his return, absorbing and assimilating his discoveries into his increasingly unified compositional aesthetic.
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MojoSep 27, 2016Intriguing melodies, immersive arrangements and a haunting choral climax. [Nov 2016, p.96]
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Sep 26, 2016It’s exciting to hear the freedom of Jóhannsson’s compositions in autonomous music, and with Orphée he’s reasserted himself as not a just an elegiac film score guy.
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Sep 26, 2016This album is not epic, it is stark in its simplicity. Each note it noticeable, each melody calls for attention, and it’s also beautiful at times.
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Nov 3, 2016He does lush, spacious things with piano, organ, solo cello, string quartet, string orchestra, voices and crackling electronics, and the arrangements are sensitively done, though I can’t say I found much compelling drama in it.
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